55 Va. App. 354 - Armstead v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Dixon · Blythe v. Commonwealth · Coleman v. Commonwealth · Harper v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“[a] violation of the statute may be established upon proof that a person unlawfully discharged a firearm at or in the direction of an occupied [building] if the person knew or should have known that the [building] was in the line of fire, even if the person did not specifically intend to shoot at or into the [building]. The fact finder may infer that the perpetrator had an unlawful intent from the commission of an unlawful act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. Com.
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